purchased

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Whenever a bond matures, a replacement bond is purchased with the requisite duration so that the overall ladder’s duration remains relatively unchanged.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

For example, a refrigerator purchased for fresh fruits and vegetables can easily be repurposed to hold bottles of soda.

From Salon • May 22, 2026

Gradel returned items he’d purchased to the museum and worked with other dealers and buyers to reclaim hundreds of others.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

SpaceX has paid Tesla for services such as purchasing, and Tesla has purchased advertising on X.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

She then went over to the cardboard box and took out the ugliest of the clothes that Mrs. Poe had purchased, the outfits the Baudelaire orphans would never wear no matter how desperate they were.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket